British Musical Modernism

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Between nationalism and the avant garde: defining British modernism
• 2. Post-war motifs
• 3. Manchester avant-garde: Goehr, Davies and Birtwistle to 1960
• 4. A Manchester generation in Paris, London, and Rome: Musgrave, Maw, Crosse, and Bennett
• 5. Group portrait in the sixties: Davies, Birtwistle and Goehr to 1967
• 6. Instrumental drama: Musgrave and Birtwistle in the sixties
• 7. Vernaculars: Bedford and Souster as pop musicians
• 8. The incurably heterogeneous Tim Souster: between Elektronische Musik and pop
• Epilogue.